Olina Qian

I recently had a great talk with a friend. During our conversation, he shared with me some of his recent reflections:

When we were young, we have a big goal. In order to achieve that goal, we kept on runing, we left lots of things behind. But once we achieved our goal, we will find out that we lost lots of things.

There are lots things around us we thought they are in the ‘either or’ mode, actually it can be ‘both and’ mode. Which means, in order to achieve our goal, we actually don’t need to throw lots of things away or left them behind. We can adjust them and bring them with us in the journey.

In my previous blogpost, I mentioned about there are three stages of life: Survival mode, success mode and significant mode. It is no doubt that my friend is in his success mode, but he felt that there are so many things he left behind that he should bring on his journey. I will take it as ‘grow together’. You want to bring your friends and your family on your journey. Because–To go faster, you go by yourself, to go further, you go as a team. So I hope this blogpost can bring you some reflections and maybe think of some people who you want to bring on the success journey.

Oh, you asked me what the defination of success again? Let me share a joke with you:

When you are three, success means not pee in your pants.

When you are sixteen, success means have a driver license.

When you are twenty, success means have sex.

When you are thirty-five, success means have a great job!

When you are fifty-five, success means have money!

When you are sixty-five, success means have sex.

When you are seventy, success means have a driver license.

When you are ninty, success means not pee in your pants.